Easy pickings?

The Fundies are testing out a new way to describe the backlash after the Calif. marriage ban passed. The reasoning goes something like this:

Prior to this election 27 states passed marriage protection amendments. Why did gays take to the streets after this one? Several churches helped get the ban passed, many larger than the Mormon church. Why are gays protesting the Mormons? Because Mormons are easy pickings. They are the first salvo in the dismantling of the religious infrastructure of America. Gays have already burned the Book of Mormon. The First Amendment is next.

I'll leave it to the reader to identify the lies and distortions mentioned there. We should all be very good at it by now.

This particular campaign will likely replace the "save the children" mantra that Anita Bryant started spouting in the 1970s but has been waning in effectiveness with the steady growth of gay-straight alliances around the country. Alas, the new one looks to have a long life ahead of it. Persecution complexes die hard.

Sigh.